Evil Quotes
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Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
William Wordsworth
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Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed and community. Fighting evil through love and music, I think it's just a really powerful idea.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. —Christopher Dawson, The Judgment of Nations (1942)
Nancy Atherton
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If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder.
Paul Bloom
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Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.
H. P. Lovecraft
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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.
Alveda King
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None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.
Mike Cernovich
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In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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So long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he is often going to need to have his ears slapped back, and who should do this but the clergy?
Anne Roe
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Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted.
J. C. Ryle
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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.
Ben Affleck
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We must make our world safer by rooting out the evil in our midst while still protecting the rights of people who mean no harm.
Amy Klobuchar
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God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.
Mark Hart Crowded House
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Non-cooperation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.
Brigham Young
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'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil.
Peter Dinklage
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There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists.
Christopher X. Brodeur
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To do wrong is the greatest of evils.
Plato
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Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.
William Emerson Arnett
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Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well.
William Shakespeare
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Anger is the lowest emotion. It clouds the intellect and can make you do foolish things. You become blind to reason and react only with your body, without thinking. This leads to failure in every sphere. Uproot this evil from your system.
Anand Neelakantan
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Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.
Joseph Brodsky
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Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.
John Shelby Spong